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It was a long-ago city room story that several New York Herald Tribune veterans shared last month with a reporter from their old rival, The New York Times: the night 44 years ago when Leonard Warren died onstage at the Metropolitan Opera House and...

March 30, 2004, Tuesday

An Operatic Marriage, Never Mind Figaro It was a spectacle that never made it to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, but it featured one of that company's legendary leaders. In 1987 Sir Rudolf Bing, then 85, a widower and long retired from...

Elegance and mishap marked the Metropolitan Opera's pension fund gala on Sunday. Elegant was a lot of the singing; elegant as well the man to whom the event was dedicated, Rudolf Bing. Bing was general manager of the Met from 1950 to 1972 and died...

January 27, 1998, Tuesday

To the Editor: Bernard Holland has done a fine job elevating the memory of Rudolf Bing, that overpraised, parasitic and lamentable excuse for a general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Egotistical, vengeful and unmusical are the attributes I...

September 28, 1997, Sunday

To the Editor: I photographed, unofficially, at the Metropolitan Opera for 20 years during virtually all of Rudolf Bing's regime [''The Met's Great Rapier Wit at Play,'' Sept. 14]. I remember him vividly as a tall sliver of a man continually in...

September 28, 1997, Sunday

FOR RUDOLF BING, WHO DIED early this month at 95, the Metropolitan Opera was life. He labored for it six days and nights a week and then collapsed in exhaustion on the seventh. Bing had little social life. He had a wife and an apartment in the Essex...

September 14, 1997, Sunday

Sir Rudolf Bing, who as the dapper and acerbic general manager of the Metropolitan Opera from 1950 to 1972 ushered the company into the modern era and into Lincoln Center, died yesterday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers. He was 95 and lived at the...

September 3, 1997, Wednesday

The 900 people in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria yesterday afternoon gave Sir RUDOLF BING a standing ovation when ALTON PETERS, the president of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, announced that the former maestro of the Met was in attendance...